Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Illumina Singapore Pte. Ltd. has 5 pending office actions concentrated in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. These actions are handled by 5 distinct examiners, showing a high level of individual examiner engagement across the portfolio. This distribution means that prosecution strategies must be tailored to five different individual perspectives within the USPTO.
Prosecution activity spans 4 distinct art units. The busiest examiner, FUELLING, MICHAEL, accounts for 1 pending office action. This distribution suggests that while the technology area is consistent, the specific examination paths are diverse across multiple regulatory units. With the 5 distinct examiners involved, the company faces a broad range of potential examiner behaviors. The presence of 4 distinct art units further indicates that the portfolio covers a variety of sub-specialties within the broader biotechnology field.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (20%) |
| §103 only | 1 (20%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (40%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| FUELLING, MICHAEL | 1 | 43.7% | +31.1% |
| ROSENTHAL, ANDREW S | 1 | 51.8% | +38.7% |
| YAMASAKI, ROBERT J | 1 | 67.6% | +43.7% |
| HAYES, JONATHAN EDWARD | 1 | 36.4% | +20.7% |
| SISSON, BRADLEY L | 1 | 19.7% | +20.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17761972 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING MULTIPLE ANALYTES | SISSON, BRADLEY L | 31d overdue |
| 17754303 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING A MEASURE CORRELATED TO THE PROBABILITY THAT TWO MUTATED SEQUENCE READS DERIVE FROM THE SAME SEQUENCE COMPRISING MUTATIONS | HAYES, JONATHAN EDWARD | — |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17761972 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING MULTIPLE ANALYTES | SISSON, BRADLEY L | 31d overdue |
| 17932709 | REAGENT COMPOSITIONS, METHODS, CARTRIDGES, AND SYSTEMS | ROSENTHAL, ANDREW S | 18d overdue |
| 17719899 | SYNTHESIS OF POLYNUCLEOTIDE BOTTLEBRUSH POLYMER | YAMASAKI, ROBERT J | 56d |
| 18008954 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR SEQUENCING USING AT LEAST ALTERING ELECTRICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF BRIDGES BETWEEN ELECTRODES | FUELLING, MICHAEL | — |
| 17754303 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING A MEASURE CORRELATED TO THE PROBABILITY THAT TWO MUTATED SEQUENCE READS DERIVE FROM THE SAME SEQUENCE COMPRISING MUTATIONS | HAYES, JONATHAN EDWARD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1613 | 1 |
| 1657 | 1 |
| 1685 | 1 |
| 1682 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18008954 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR SEQUENCING USING AT LEAST ALTERING ELECTRICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF BRIDGES BETWEEN ELECTRODES | FUELLING, MICHAEL | — | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 07, 2022 |
| 17932709 | REAGENT COMPOSITIONS, METHODS, CARTRIDGES, AND SYSTEMS | ROSENTHAL, ANDREW S | 1613 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 18d overdue | Pending | Sep 16, 2022 |
| 17719899 | SYNTHESIS OF POLYNUCLEOTIDE BOTTLEBRUSH POLYMER | YAMASAKI, ROBERT J | 1657 | §102§103DP | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Apr 13, 2022 |
| 17754303 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING A MEASURE CORRELATED TO THE PROBABILITY THAT TWO MUTATED SEQUENCE READS DERIVE FROM THE SAME SEQUENCE COMPRISING MUTATIONS | HAYES, JONATHAN EDWARD | 1685 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 29, 2022 |
| 17761972 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING MULTIPLE ANALYTES | SISSON, BRADLEY L | 1682 | §112 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Mar 18, 2022 |
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